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7 June 2020

Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.

9.0 |
Loud And Quiet

9.0 |
Clash

Charli starts and ends with hard disorienting club bangers, leaving the middle of the album space to expose her tenderness and vulnerability while still retaining her futuristic, unpredictable sound and penchant for an irresistible pop hook
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8.5118702

8.5 |
Paste Magazine

You can hear the authenticity and work ethic in every fuzzy beat of music's first major quarantine album
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8.3118698

8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound

The avant-pop artist documents her time in quarantine with the help of her fans
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8.0118697

8.0 |
Slant Magazine

The album speaks to our current circumstances without being exclusively tethered to them
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8.0118860

8.0 |
The Quietus

While not life-altering, how i’m feeling now is fun, fast and thoroughly listenable. It’s absorbing as a document from a strange period, and its diaristic, vloggy aspects provide an intriguing peek into artistry under pressure
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8.0118626

8.0 |
NME

Written and recorded in just five-and-a-half weeks, this wonky pop record perfectly encapsulates the disorientating mood of our current, bizarre times
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8.0118627

8.0 |
DIY

8.0 |
Exclaim

It's fun and sometimes silly, made on the fly and under a tight deadline. But it's desperate too — a frenzied call for release, an ode to the love that keeps us going, and further proof that no other pop artist today can make the digital sound so disarmingly human
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8.0118630

8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit

Charli XCX has proved that music really can be made anywhere, with anything, during a period where the world is on pause, and still sounds like the future is hers to play with
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8.0 |
Evening Standard

8.0 |
Spectrum Culture

Just like that and Number 1 Angel, HIFN holds together far better than her “official” label effort
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7.7118672

7.7 |
Pitchfork

The British electro pop artist sings of love, loneliness, and solo partying across an album built in and made for this very moment
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7.0118710

7.0 |
PopMatters

Charli XCX uses her isolation as inspiration for a brand new record conceived during the pandemic. How I'm Feeling Now captures the frustrations and pleasures of confinement with a feisty attitude
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7.0118629

7.0 |
All Music

More than just an interesting social media experiment or a way to fend off quarantine boredom, it's an artistic challenge that's true to the very best parts of XCX's music
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6.0118643

6.0 |
No Ripcord

From where we currently sit, it’s another intriguing entry into the Charli XCX canon, even if it does feel like more of a stopgap than anything. But hey, right now, that’s okay too
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6.0118647

6.0 |
The Arts Desk

Familiar tropes, from hardcore rave, trance, R&B and elsewhere are used with understanding and originality
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